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Windows 7: DVD playback stops in Media Center and Media Player

Hi,
I have checked two seperate DVD movies and they stop after the splash screens, FBI warning and Corporate logos, and never make it to the DVD menu.
This DVD player is an external player and I have no problem with playback on my Dual boot with Vista Home Premium.

May the hardware acceleration is set to full. You can change it to `none'. It may be find in the graphic properties menu, have to check, cause it differ from OS to OS. In windows 7, it is in the graphic properties, troubleshoot menu. I too had the problem, I was not able to play any kind of video be it dvd or .avi or .dat files through wmp 12, then I found the hardware acceleration menu and set it to none. Now everything plays fine with wmp 12 and cyberlink pdvd etc., Try and give a chance to set it.

Hello,
I have tried to turn off hardware acceleration in my Nvidia GPU control panel but this did not help with the problem. I found the troubleshoot menu but I could not find the acceleration menu that you mention. I also looked at the troubleshooting report and it states the following: Configuration settings might be set incorrectly. "Unexpected WMP behavior might be due to configuration errors."

I typed hardware acceleration in the Start Menu and it lists the VLC media player set to no hardware acceleration. This is the only media player that I have been able to view DVD's and play audio CD's. How do I change these settings for WMP?

Then there is still one more option, go for windows live update. It's in the start menu, at first or second number. Run the live update, possibly it will update the windows. I got the 915 GAG graphics driver only after I ran windows live update, until then it was showing generic and refreshed rate at a fixed 60.

i just got a new dell studio 1555 laptop, it will play some movies but just last night it got through all the credits of a the dark night and the fbi screen and froze and wouldnt play it, seems since the last update on windows auto update this problem has arrised, also could be microsofts wonderful new deal with the movie industry and security on stolen movies, seems i dont own anything stolen or priated but seems like vista does it cant play something it thinks we stole, please fix this microsoft. this is your software issue not mine. anybody know a good movie player that works on a 64 bit computer other than windows media?

BTW not trying to be a smart alec but i cant even get windows 7 for dummies video to even run on this

i have the intel mobile 4 graffics card its a stock 1555 studio with the camera, dell customer support said its a software problem and wanted to send me somehwere to talk to someone from their software customer support at which i refused because of the charge, i got VCL media player to work on it just fine, but i was able to watch movies on this before the last 2 windows updates this weekend, i watched blackhawk down and a few others. i also have had to run system restore to a previous saved usable windows for some reason cause the lojack caused major issues with adobe flash player of all things i will leave my specs below.

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